Becoming a Welcoming Community 50 Years Later

Fifty years ago this summer, Martin Luther King spoke to over 10,000 people on the Winnetka Green about racially exclusionary housing practices in Chicago’s northern suburbs.

Evanston, with then and now the largest minority population among North Shore suburbs, has struggled to address the issues Dr. King raised.

The Evanston Public Library will host a panel discussion of the history of fair and affordable housing in Evanston and what is being done now to make Evanston a fair and welcoming community, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 25, in the library’s community meeting room.